I am enormously proud of how our work has contributed to medicine safety and the quality use of medicines finally receiving the attention it warrants.

A small rural hospital in southern Queensland has introduced a new model of pharmacy practice. Hopefully, it will lead to reduced medicine-related hospital admissions....

How do I comply with My Health Record guidelines when accessing a patient’s MHR to review a discharge summary?

It took Bria Lacy five years to ‘find her voice’ but when she did, it was heard. I was not expecting the overwhelming response I...

The move to electronic prescribing is the ‘biggest process change in medicine supply since computers were introduced in pharmacy in the 1980s’.

Most Australian GPs have used a placebo in practice at least once, with active placebos used far more than inert placebos, a new study...

More than 62,000 hospital admissions for heart failure in Australia could have been prevented and more than 400,000 bed days avoided, according to new...

Evaluation overseas has found pharmacist prescribing to be safe, clinically appropriate and well-received by patients. Pharmacy groups have long called for changes to allow pharmacists...

The Federal Government has committed to improving medicine safety in aged care, as part of a $537 million response to the interim report of...

Almost 10% of residents in aged care facilities were prescribed an antimicrobial, mostly commonly cefalexin and clotrimazole, but the majority had no documented signs...